February 28, 2011, 5:04 PM
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It was a stunning moment of moral clarity. As the South Vietnamese refugees clambered onto rickety boats in the South China Sea to escape the victorious Communists, the American Left that orchestrated the US defeat through a sustained campaign of propaganda and fake calls for peace stood silent.
As Pol Pot, the "progressive" dictator tortured and murdered a third of his people in Cambodia, the leftists "peace" activists in the US and Europe who never saw a US military operation that was justified, turned a blind eye.
The silence of the likes of Susan Sontag, Jane Fonda, Noam Chomsky and their fellow travelers came to mind last week when the Western media and intellectual elites averted their gaze as Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, the long exiled spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood spoke before a crowd of millions at Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Qaradawi, who had been living in exile in Qatar during Hosni Mubarak's reign, became an international jihadist superstar thanks to Qatar's unelected potentate Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani who gave him his jihad indoctrination show on Al Jazeera. From his internationally televised soapbox, Qaradawi regularly preaches international jihad and genocide of Jewry to millions of fans worldwide.
Two important things happened during Qaradawi's appearance in Cairo. First, his handlers refused to allow Google's Egyptian Internet revolutionary Wael Ghonim to join the cleric on the dais. For anyone willing to notice, Qaradawi's message in spurning Ghonim was indisputable. As far as the jihadists are concerned, Ghonim and his fellow Internet activists are the present day equivalent of Lenin's useful idiots.
They did their job of convincing credulous Western liberals that the overthrow of Mubarak was all about sweetness and light.
And now they are no longer needed.
The second message was Qaradawi's call to destroy Israel. With millions of adoring fans crying out "Amen," and "Allahu Akhbar," Qaradawi called for a Muslim conquest of Jerusalem - that is, for the destruction of Israel. As a first step, he demanded that the Egyptian military open the Egyptian border with Gaza.
In the dismal tradition of its Vietnam-era teachers, today's international Left had nothing to say about Qaradawi's genocidal speech. In the New York Times' write-up of Qaradawi's triumphant return to Egypt for instance, the murder-inciting cleric was referred to as a champion of democracy and pluralism.
Leftist writers like Peter Beinart have spent the better part of the past month whitewashing and belittling the significance of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The same Muslim Brotherhood that was founded in 1928 and got its first boost from the Nazis who funded their anti-Jewish pogroms in Cairo and Alexandria in 1939 is seen as nothing to worry about. US President Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assured Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular. This is the same Muslim Brotherhood whose motto is, "Allah is our objective; the prophet is our leader; the Koran is our law; Jihad is our way; Dying in the path of Allah is our goal."
THE SAME Left who champions Qaradawi as a liberal is absolutely adamant that the revolutions now raging throughout the Muslim world are a mere sideshow to the region's chief drama. The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, Oman, Morocco and Saudi Arabia are nothing. And the anti-regime protests in Iran have no strategic significance whatsoever to the West, which is mortally threatened by the mullocracy.
Who cares if the Arabs are ruled by tyrants, democrats, jihadists, or fascists? The only thing that matters is that "Palestine" is free of Israeli "occupation."
How can anyone get excited about the future of the oil-dependent global economy when Jews still reside in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem?
The Left's essential indifference to the plight of hundreds of millions of Arabs and its significance for the West was exposed in a news analysis by Brendan O'Neill in The Australian on February 16. O'Neill noted that whereas the demonstrators in Cairo were fairly silent on the issue of the Palestinians, anti-Mubarak demonstrations throughout the West prominently featured anti-Israel slogans and chants of "Free, free Palestine!"
O'Neill concluded that the contrasting messages, "reveals something important about the Palestine issue.... [It] has become less important for Arabs and of the utmost symbolic importance for Western radicals at exactly the same time."
Actually, it is important to Western leftists and jihadists, which is why the Palestinians only became a salient issue in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood began taking control over the opposition movement with Qaradawi's sermon on February 18.
IN A groundbreaking study of the propaganda war against Israel entitled "The Big Lie and the Media War against Israel: From Inversion of Truth to Inversion of Reality," published in Jewish Political Studies Review in March 2007, Joel Fishman showed that the Muslim Brotherhood's propaganda war against Israel, like the Left's propaganda war against Israel, relied heavily on Nazi propaganda against Jews.
The early partnership between the Brotherhood and the Nazis, brought together by Palestinian Arab leader and Nazi agent Haj Amin el Husseini imported European anti-Semitism to the Muslim world. Beginning in the early 1950s, Nazi war criminals immigrated to Egypt. There they recreated much of Josef Goebbels' anti-Semitic propaganda operation for Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Fishman also documented how in the aftermath of World War II, and particularly after Israel's victory in the Six Day War, the Soviets adapted Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda to demonize Israel as the new, collective Jew and in turn demonize the collective Jew as the new Nazi Germany.
Two sources fed the Soviet anti-Jewish/anti-Zionist propaganda machine: former Nazi propagandists in Egypt; and former Nazi propagandists employed by the East German Communist regime. According to Fishman, the messages developed by these ex-Nazi propagandists were the basis for the Soviet campaign to delegitimize Israel which began in earnest after 1967. The call to arms was published first in a Pravda editorial in October 1967. There, Zionism, the Jewish national liberation movement was reviled as dedicated to "genocide, racism, treachery, aggression, and annexation...all characteristic attributes of fascists."
With both the Soviets and the Arabs spewing the same inverted message, it didn't take long for it to become the rage in Europe. Europe's adoption of the Nazi-inspired propaganda in which reality was inverted and Israel - the victim of Arab imperialist, genocidal aggression - became the imperialist, genocidal aggressor was facilitated by France's embrace of the Arab camp after its withdrawal from Algeria and effective withdrawal from NATO.
By 1975, with the UN General Assembly's adoption of the Soviet-Arab sponsored resolution 3379 defining Zionism as racism, most European governments had fallen in line with the Soviet-Arab propaganda war.
They in turn spent the next generation bringing their message to America.
TODAY, THAT message has become the sum total of Europe's Middle East policy. From their massive global funding of anti-Israel NGOs, to their financing of anti-Zionist films, plays, art exhibitions and educational curricula throughout the world and their bankrolling of the Palestinian Authority, the Europeans have put their money where their mouths and well-washed brains are.
As Norway's plan to run the Israeli embassy out of Oslo because its security measures annoy its neighbors; to European authorities' refusal to provide police protection for their threatened Jewish communities; to initiatives like the Dutch Parliament's current bid to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughter all make clear, hatred of Israel runs seamlessly into outright governmental aggression against Jews.
So too, as The Guardian's recent onslaught against the PA for its leaders' willingness to make minor compromises with Israel in the framework of a peace treaty demonstrates, mainstream forces in Britain and throughout Europe now side openly with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in their annihilationist war against the Jewish state.
It is this obsessive campaign against Israel that explains the so-called Middle East Quartet's insistence that the most urgent item on the international agenda is coercing Israel to surrender land and rights to the PA.
Whereas the EU cannot figure out a coherent policy regarding Libya even as Muammar Gaddafi massacres his own citizens and sets fire to his oil fields, Europe's leaders are unified in their firm conviction that the so-called "peace process" must be reinvigorated.
So too, the Obama administration remains incapable of lifting a finger to prevent an Iranian proxy from taking over Bahrain or a consortium of al-Qaida terrorists from taking over Yemen. Obama refuses to take any action to help the Libyan people overthrow Gaddafi. As for Iran, Obama maintains his steadfast refusal to take any action to help the Iranian people overthrow their nuclear-proliferating, terror-supporting regime.
But at the same time, the president and his advisors are absolutely committed to coercing Israel to block Jews from building homes in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and ensuring that everyone is clear that Jews have no legitimate right to our capital city and historic heartland.
As for the Left itself, as Ron Radosh reported in Pajamas Media this week, attendees at J Street's annual post-Zionist confab could barely muster polite applause for the mildly Zionist MKs from Kadima that spoke at the conference. But they broke into raucous applause when Arab and Jewish anti-Zionist speakers proclaimed that all progress in the region is tied to Israel ending its so-called "occupation."
AND THIS brings us back to 1975, to the boat people in the South China Sea, the killing fields in Cambodia, and the Left that couldn't care less about them.
It could be argued that the Bill Ayres, Howard Zinns and Jean Paul Sartes of the world can be forgiven for their decision to side with the Soviets and their Third World proxies against the US and the Western alliance.
After all, they had nothing personal at stake. The Soviets were not threatening their freedom.
And what did they owe to "unprogressive," "reactionary" people from Southeast Asia who agreed with America that Communism was evil and wished to be free?
But the situation is different today. By waging its war against Israel through Palestinian proxies, the West threatens itself. The Nazi propaganda recycled by the Soviets which has enslaved the peoples of Europe and much of America's intellectual elite has not only turned them into willing participants in the new war against the Jews. It has turned them into instruments for their own destruction.
By focusing their attention entirely on Israel and its imaginary crimes, the Europeans and their American admirers ignore the fact that the Islamic war against Israel is itself a proxy war for global jihad.
That war, informed by the same Nazi propaganda, but refined through the prism of Islamic Jew hatred and totalitarian imperialism, does not see Israel's destruction as its ultimate aim. The jihadists, whom the West so happily ignores and whitewashes, have made it absolutely clear that destroying Israel is but the first skirmish in their great war. Their ultimate aim is the conquest of what remains of Western civilization.
Originally published in The Jerusalem Post.
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'the Europeans and their American admirers ignore the fact that the Islamic war against Israel is itself a proxy war for global jihad'
What you fail to realize is that every single one of these groups are united in the same burningdesire and goal of exterminating Israel.
They just have different methods.
They don't care that their fellow cannibals will devour them after because exterminating
Israel consumes every cell in their brain.
The Dennis Ross's and Thomas Friedmans are only too willing to serve the fire eating dragon.
Sadly the average Jew like a trusting sheep is too naive to understand evil masked in a friendly smile until it's too late.
They would rather trust a wolf talking like a sheep than heed my warnings has been proven out since 1993.
Whereas Iran's Amadinejad's openly stated goal of destroying Israel would rate an 8 out of 10 ,the Quartet (with the U.S. leading) having learned more stealth and deception tactics after the Third Reich's failure to finish the job rate the highest grade of 10 out of 10.
The reason for this is that Israel can stand up and fight against it's enemies but it cannot against it's 'friends' and their diabolically clever peace agenda.
Without faith in God they are incapable of fighting this darkest evil masquerading as good.That is why every single Israeli leader folds like a sheap suit.
I don't know if Fishman touched on a recurring tragedy withing the Jewish community in times like these,the tragedy of the kapo who betrays,everything ,his God,his soul, his own people to save himself.
There is an explosion of this worst of inhumanity,this hideous, treacherous golem like never before.
The anti-semites,Ismaic jihadists ,Jew haters of the West love to see the Jew abuse abuse other Jews for them.
They are enjoying the show of their loyal capo Prime Minister of Israel shooting,beating up, imprisoning fellow Jews to enforce their judenrein ,ethnic cleasing agenda and once again the Jewish people go along with this out of fear because they do not know their God and will not stand up until it is too late.
The enemies of Zion love to see evil Jews do their dirty work for them and we have it happening now for all the world to see.
There is a long line of faithless,godless secular unJewish politicians waiting in the wings to replace the Capo Netanyahu who stand for nothing except implementing the will of the international community ,Israel extermination by stealth,jihad peace.
It's time to dump them all if Israel is to survive.
Thanks for another great article.
The Nazis routinely hobbled their war efforts by diverting resources to insure they could kill the maximum number of Jews.
Similarly, the West today is fastening a noose for itself with it's obsession about Israel (while the Jihadis slowly destroy the West).
You would think that, unlike our brethren under the Nazis, we Israelis would steer our own path and let the West descend off a cliff if that what the West (apparently) wished to do.
Sadly, we learn today that Netahyahu is now making speeches that we can't ignore "international pressure" over the Jews audacity to own property in Israel (a.k.a "settlers").
So there it is.
Our own leaders want us to join hands with the West and leap off a cliff.
The world is coming unhinged.
Dear Caroline & Crew,
You have put together a great article on the systematic persecution of the Jews. I believe Jews should build where ever they want. The left and liberals are one of the most destructive forces today. They don't care how bad somebody is, there allright with them, as long as there not Christians, Jews, or conservative. God bless you, keep putting the truth out there, like your doing.
Ivan
The nexus between Islamists and Nazis that Ms. Glick speaks of can be witness in full swing at YouTube. By tracing the friend and subscriber networks of these Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, anarchists and jihadists, one can see they clearly overlap and support one another, and this video illustrates how prevalent their presence is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwj0jwZ2tNY
While researching the video above, I documented more than 600 active Nazi, Neo-Nazi, Islamist, anarchist and other active youTube channels engaged in disseminating virulent antisemitic propaganda, in direct violation of YouTube's posted terms of service. A list of these channels is here:
http://alalazoo.blogspot.com/2011/01/list-of-antisemitic-hate-profiles-at.html
Yet these channels remain, while YouTube saw fit to terminate the account of Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch for 'hate speech'. It was only after an organized letter-writing campaign that YouTube reinstated PMW.
The accounts listed above only begin to scratch the surface, and the more one traces these networks, the more like-minded YouTube users one uncovers.
My searches were only in English, and only at YouTube. Were one to search in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, French, German, etc., and expand the search to Facebook, Myspace, LiveLeak and other social networks, one would begin to grasp the true scope of the problem, and the true depths of the collaboration between jihadists and the Nazi ideology.
My thanks to Ms. Glick for her tireless efforts to open people's eyes.
"Europeans and their American admirers ignore the fact that the Islamic war against Israel is itself a proxy war for global jihad. That war, informed by the same Nazi propaganda, but refined through the prism of Islamic Jew hatred and totalitarian imperialism, does not see Israel's destruction as its ultimate aim. The jihadists, whom the West so happily ignores and whitewashes, have made it absolutely clear that destroying Israel is but the first skirmish in their great war. Their ultimate aim is the conquest of what remains of Western civilization."
True but, both those on the left and jihadists are merely Putin's and the Chinese Leadership's 'useful idiots'.
Russia and China are using both the West's leftists and Islamic jihadists as covert tools of aggression against the West.
The left hamstrings the West. While Islamic jihad preoccupies the West, supplied logistical support by rogue nations whose behavior is unchecked due to consistent blockage of International sanctions by...Russia and China .
Russia's facilitation of nuclear proliferation to hostile, unstable third-world rogue regimes is designed to eventually precipitate the use of those weapons against the US and Israel. Leaving Israel demolished, the US greatly reduced in might and Islam destroyed in retaliation for its nuclear terrorist attacks upon the West.
Into the breach in world leadership will step Russia and China, emerging in too strong a position for an inevitably newly isolationist US to challenge.
That is the end goal sought by Putin and China's leadership, for power, unchecked by altruistic principle, always seeks ever more power. Power is an aphrodisiac for the soulless, who invariably turn to it, so as not to contemplate their own emptiness.
I can only advise Caroline Glick and all Israelis that they must be prepared to fend for themselves. Her warning that once the West feeds Israel to the crocodile the beast will turn on us will never be heeded until it’s too late to do Israel any good.
Thank God for your honesty."
"Who cares if the Arabs are ruled by tyrants, democrats, jihadists, or fascists? The only thing that matters is that "Palestine" is free of Israeli "occupation."
George Bailin
We get it. The revolutions being applied in the ME are fronts for global jihad. This is obvious to anyone with a shread of honesty of integrity.
Why all the heavy lifting, bringing in the march of communism in the sixties and especially Vietnam? There is no comparison between the global threat of communism as it loomed in the sixties and the threat of advancing Islam as it has always existed, even in the Soviet Union and as it exists in the People's Repubublic of China now.
Nobody ever did to any Muslim country what the US did to Vietnam. What the US did to Vietnam was obscene and it was the equally obscene French who dragged us into it. What was the US's contribution to resistence to communism in Vietname? It was nothing more than a struggle to keep Vietnam catholic. That was it.
The West need's Jews in positions of power loyal to their nefarious agenda to bring Israel down.
They have many useful,devious idiots.
The best yet is the Chameleon who can change colors and deceive with ease.
The thing that marks Netanyahu as damaged goods,real bad for leading Israel is his arrogance and disdain for the little people of Israel, the demonized settlers,the last bastion of obedience and faith to G-d's command to rebuild the ancient cities and villages.
The last true Zionists who do not bend their knee to the evil decree's of His enemies.
The reason a curse (a mark of failure) is upon Netanyahu as we saw with Ariel Sharon,Ehud Olmert and those loyal to him is that the International Community is bigger to them than the Holy One of Israel.
Their G-d is too small for Israel,smaller than the enemies they face.
The god they serve and obey is not the God of Avraham,Yitzak,and Yakov.
Caroline,
Thank you for your penetrating article. It is high time for our Jewish people to wake up to reality!
There are three questions:
1. How much money is needed to influence mass media and politicians in USA?
2. How much money do Arabian billionaires possess?
3. Who holds most of the money around the world?
Dear Ms Glick
I know this is probably not the forum, but have you considered the program by Al Jazeera called "The Shouting Valley".
You know all about this, but is this not a wonderful topic for a Latma song ?
No cell phones only megaphones.
Just a thought.
JP
Israel must be stronger now that ever before.
There is no one you can entrust with your security.
Security is in strength and intelligence do not let your gaurd down.
These very turbulent waters.
Caroline ,
You have to admit that the quisling Netanyahu serves his evil masters quite well.
You know he got a phone call from the Skull n' Bones team in Washington to go after those settlers for Abbas so they could crank up their final solution talks pronto.
He is quick to obey their commands with great zeal although he does it on the sly,secretly so as not to arouse the suspicion of his most loyal and blind follower idiots.
Pleasing his handlers is his raison d' etre along with duping his loyal followers with empty promises,empty words and gibberish.
Just following orders.Where have we heard that before ?
The Arab uprise is insinuated after his Cairo Speech and his apeasement tour to Indonesia by the stealth mohamedan in the White House. This in compliance with his Muslim Brothers and the Mudjahedeen as embryonal Al Qaeda under direction of CIA's Leon Panetta as a reaction against the emerging storm against islamization and the down fall of the currency in Europe.
So, the upheavels in the Arab countries are provoked by the Kenyan.
The goal of the Kenyan is
1. that all those countries (Libya, Tunesia, Algeria, Maroc, Jordan, Bahrein, Oman, Jemen etc) ) are forced into a Sunnie variant of a Iranian islamic regime and
2. under disguise of moderate refugees jihadi murderers are secretly fleeing into Europe to establish a Caliphate ... and with the consent of the liberal elites in Washington in order to have some "nation building" achievements next to the worlds economic QEI,II,&III inflatory monetary crisis ... to get reelection.
But this will all fail. Moamar Khadafi and Chavez stands in the way of the infantile second generation Kenyan "victim" of British colonialism. What a petty ...
Caroline, another excellent article for which I applaud your courage. Sadly you are repeating what those of us with common sense who value life already know. The future of the world depends on the continued existence of Israel. As the only truly democratic country in the Middle East she has managed to keep a fragile balance of sanity among her enemies, a balance that is turning to chaos as upheaval in the Arab world continues. That the Jews have always been scapegoats for all the ills of the world is a given, but we've rallied before and can do so once again if we wake up before it's too late.
ppksky,
Clearly, you get global jihad but you certainly do not get what Vietnam was about.
If you were there, as I was, then you drew profoundly erroneous lessons from your experience. If you were not there, then your speculative reasoning is seriously flawed.
Either way you would do well to revisit the subject and with an open mind. To do so would require that after your probable initial knee-jerk rejection of this message,(no one likes to be told they're wrong), you actually consider this:
Ms Glick was not there and yet, she reveals a far deeper understanding of the conflict than yourself. That is because her premises do not prevent her from seeing deeply into the subject, whereas your ludicrous statement that Vietnam was solely an attempt to keep the country Catholic...reveals that your biases lead you to unsupportable premises, the extending logic of which, results in your nonsensical conclusions.
The real question of course is, can we rise above our biases to examine them? If not, we remain in the darkness of our prejudices, chained to them as surely as if they were physical constraints.
The Arab uprise is insinuated after his Cairo Speech and his apeasement tour to Indonesia by the stealth mohamedan in the White House. This in compliance with his Muslim Brothers and the Mudjahedeen as embryonal Al Qaeda under direction of CIA's Leon Panetta as a reaction against the emerging storm against islamization and the down fall of the currency in Europe.
So, the upheavels in the Arab countries are provoked by the Kenyan.
The goal of the Kenyan is
1. that all those countries (Libya, Tunesia, Algeria, Maroc, Jordan, Bahrein, Oman, Jemen etc) ) are forced into a Sunnie variant of a Iranian islamic regime and
2. under disguise of moderate refugees jihadi murderers are secretly fleeing into Europe to establish a Caliphate
This is conform the electoral strategy of the liberal elites in Washington by being able to claim some "nation building" achievements as opposed to the worlds economic QEI,II,&III inflatory monetary crisis ... to get the Kenyans reelection.
But this will all fail. Moamar Khadafi, Chavez, Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh stand in the way of the infantile second generation Kenyan "victim" of British colonialism. What a petty ...
1. At the time of the Cambodian mass murders, or genocide, it was not well known outside of Southeast Asia. People who did hear about it did not, at first, know who to trust. The Vietnamese who put a stop to it did not want the dirty laundry of the Communists aired in public. Many leftists in the West reflexively denied it, many rightists reflexively touted it.
2. The root of the problem is not exactly radical Islam. The Koran and the Islamic world haven't changed their ideas that much in the last hundred years. Yet, a hundred years ago, the Islamic world was not a problem for the West. The difference is that now they have trillions (yes, trillions with a 'T') of dollars of oil money.
If the West had picked some other ethnic or religious group to receive a dump of trillions of dollars, there is a fair chance they too would have decided it was a message from God that they should conquer the world with it. And they would be the problem, not the Muslims.
If the industrialized West wants peace, it has to stop paying for oil.
'The root of the problem is not exactly radical Islam'
Sounds like a dumbing down briefing given to all U.S. Government employees by CAIR.
Quit making excuses for Islam with your twisted moral equivalence.
The root of the problem is Islam.
The poor along with the rich Muslims all agree on one thing when it comes to Israel dear western brainwashed dude attempting to brainwash others.
Israel, forget for now the world that hates you. God is dealing with the world and those who have chosen to stand against Him and Israel herself are in for a hard lesson. Change your focus. The God of Israel is very clear about your chosenness and the source of all your strength:
Isaiah 41:8-13
"But you, Israel my servant,
you are the people that I have chosen,
the descendants of Abraham my friend.
I brought you from the ends of the earth;
I called you from its farthest corners
and said to you, 'You are my servant.'
I did not reject you but chose you.
"Do not be afraid- I am with you!
I am your God- let nothing terrify you!
I will make you strong and help you;
I will protect and save you.
"Those who are angry with you
will know the shame of defeat.
Those who fight against you will die
and will disappear from the earth.
I am the Lord your God;
I strengthen you and say,
'Do not be afraid- I will help you.'"
Can you imagine the change in an Israeli leadership (and public) who actually believed this; we wouldn't recognise them! And if it all sounds too flighty for the 'realists' then tell me what else is working...
All the talkbackers who see nefarious conspiracies at every corner need to get a grip. Netanyahu is not getting secret messages from the mothership. He is merely acting in accordance with his personal prejudices and personal interests, both of which he places well above the good of the nation. The choice Israel has today is quite stark: lie down and die or be treated like a Jewish North Korea. Netanyahy does not have the backbone to choose being a live pariah. He and all like him will choose to run off with their ill-gotten millions and leave behind a well-liked graveyard, instead. No conspiracy necessary. Just cowardice, selfishness and a visceral hatred of anyone who wears a kippah and has a backbone.
Caroline,
On the nose!
'Netanyahu is not getting secret messages from the mothership.'
Moshe,the simple truth is that the one and only Creator,God, the Holy One of Israel is in complete control and He has turned up the heat on Israel and the world to expose what everyone is really made up of.
He is exposing who and what is really behind the curtain.
We can see a widening gap,a division between those standing for God's agenda and the rest standing for the 'other' agenda's.
There is no middle ground,no gray area any longer.
You can spot the liar's and phony hypocrites a mile away now.
There is no doubt who the consummate actor,the MIT graduate Netanyahu serves religiously and always does the will of.
He proves by his actions that he has no faith in God.
God has exposed him under His pressure cooker for what he really is as He is doing with everyone else.
I'll bet you he has a line to Obama and Hillary in his bedroom between him and his wife.
The wheat and the tares are now being winnowed, seperated for the final harvest of the earth.
The useless stubble are for the fire,the missiles,the coming destruction.
Dear Caroline,
Of course there is more than enough truth in what you say to frighten any reasonable person. Being on the left end of the American political spectrum does not remove my capacity to comprehend threats and try as best I can to rate them between minimal and existential. The threat of Islamic fundamentalism is existential both to Israel and the West and requires strategic action to encapsulate and delimit the explosion of Islamic radicalism from within the revolutionary wave now washing across North Africa and the Middle East. I read the speech of Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi and recognize the threat involving his return to Egypt and his power to reach and move millions to follow him. However, there are other voices in Egypt and throughout the Middle East that I would hope Americans, Europeans and even Israelis will support because while the revolution opens the door to Islamic fundamentalists there are millions of Muslims not interested in living under Sharia law and many of the people were in the streets of Cairo and are now in the streets of Benghazi and tomorrow may be in the streets of Jerusalem. While security is essential, it is possible to support human rights without giving away the house to the enemies of freedom. I'm more than afraid of the alternative for Israel as well as the West.
There is this thing the world does when the Jews or Israel have a stake in a situation. It acts as if the situation has nothing to do with us. It simply eliminates us from the picture, from the problem, from the solution, from the discussion.
I've watched this happen all my life, both on the personal level and in the media and public discourse. I always wondered how it could be that when the news media or politicians spoke of global terrorism, they never mentioned Israel. I always wondered what the silence of my non-Jewish friends and acquaintances on the Left meant in the hours and days following horrific terrorist attacks against Israelis and Jews around the world. I suspected antisemitism was a part of it, but I hesitated to make a final judgement, until after the Palestinian cause rose to the top of the Left's agenda. Then I knew for certain. They knew nothing, and, for decades, had said even less about the Middle East conflict, yet somehow these "peace" and "human rights" activists and advocates suddenly had found common cause with the world's most notorious terrorists. For me, the true intentions and motivations of the liberal media and the anti-Israel left were most clearly revealed by what they DIDN'T say.
These days, radical change may, or may not, be afoot in the Arab and Muslim world, and it doesn't make a difference to Western nations, which remain devoted to the same screw-the-Jews business as usual objectives: Keep pounding Israel to give into the hate-based, illegitimate claims of the Arab and Muslim world. Sure, the people say they want democracy and freedom, but why should they have to accept the responsibilities that come with it? The law is on Israel's side, but so what? Just keep your mouth shut, and the Jews'll go along with whatever we say. They always do.
Sadly, Saudi Arabia and friends call the shots, today, with little challenge to their demands, despite the dangers they pose to the West. They have both the oil and the cash, and Western banks don't give a damn about what's right or wrong or good or evil, as long as the money and oil flow. Even with the many supporters of Israel within the Christian community today, turning the tide is a gargantuan task.
We are past 1933 and the rise of Hitler...er Iran... and we are heading toawrd the Great Appeasment-where instead of a idealistic but naive Chamberlin, we have a dedicated progressive collectivist in the White House, asking American Jews leaders to pressure Isreal to make peace. Bibi must shake his head every day at the gullibility of the majority of American Jews, who still beleive that Obama cares for Isreal like NIxon, rather than Carter.
Someone characterized Israel's growing isolation with the phrase "Jewish North Korea." If only Israel were treated as benignly as North Korea. There is no parallel between the way Israel is treated and any other country, at any time in history. Neither North Korea, nor Iran, and certainly never the Soviet Union nor Nazi Germany nor Maoist China, were ever subject to such relentless hostility in the Western media. The true parallels to the current situation can be found in the treatment of Jews in fin-de-siecle France and in central Europe during the 1930s. The same phenomenon of hysterical mobs, led by vicious crackpots, is easily recognizable. Except now it is on a global scale, now it transcends national, linguistic, and religious boundaries, thanks to the "gift" of the internet.